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In his first interview since son Cameron was sentenced to five years in prison, Michael Douglas calls the sentence “adequate” and takes responsibility for his “absentee” role in Cameron’s childhood. “Look, my son was a drug dealer and he’s been trying to kill himself for a while and I can’t condone his behavior,” Douglas tells Today. “I’ve taken blame about being a bad father—if being a bad father is working your butt off trying to create a career.”

He has since changed his parenting style with his two younger children, and says, “my priorities have completely changed. My marriage and my families come certainly before my career.”

“I’ve taken blame about being a bad father—if being a bad father is working your butt off trying to create a career.” You admit nothing with that statement. You take the blame, but in the next breath talk about how hard you worked to be a big shot movie star? There's more to being a parent than providing. You don't need to earn millions upon millions of dollars to be a good father. Your guidance and presence in his life would have been worth more than anything you could have bought him.

JVM_Fan

May 3, 2010 5:53 PM CDT

How Cam's dad feel right about reducing his jail time while other people rot behind bars for lesser crimes???? The show "Issues" (on cnn headline news channel) has comments from Cameron's dad Michael Douglas on the show tonight. I can't think of what he plans on saying in his son's defense. ADHD?

Ultraworld

May 3, 2010 3:12 PM CDT

5 years is pretty light, He had a half pound of meth w/ prior felony convictions. In the real world that's a 25 yr sentence.